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 CORNWALL though no name can be traced, this is clearly one of the Carminows, probably the Robert Carminow whom Hals mentions as having accompanied Edward L to the Holy Land. In the N. aisle, over a monument to the loyal Richard Vyvyan, is the sword which he wielded in the Civil War. Mnwgnii-in-Pydar (6 m. N. of Newquay) is one of the most beautiful parishes in Corn- wall ; it embraces the lovely Vale of Lanherne, the woods of Carnanton, and the delightful coast of Mawgan Forth. The church is Perp., and its exquisite pinnacled tower rises amid a cluster of fine Cornish elms. A restoration con- ducted without enthusiasm has happily spared the carved bench-ends, oak pulpit and screen. It is natural to find memorials of the powerftil Arundels ; there are good brasses also, one dated 1460. In the churchyard, close to which is the life-giving freshness of a running brook, stands a remarkable cross, spoken of by Blight as "the most elaborate of the kind in Cornwall. What is intended to be represented by this carving is not very evident ; an angel seated on a block in a corner holds a serpent turning round a pillar, and with its head touching the face of a king. By the king's side is the figure of a queen kneeling before a lectern. On the eastern face is the crucifixion ; the two remaining sides have each a single figure." Here also is a curious monument, in the shape of the stern of a boat, erected over ten seamen who drifted ashore, frozen to death, in the winter of 1 846. 180